"Boom, boom, boom......" The flying thunder cannon hidden behind the position suddenly fired again, and more than 20 shells shaped like heavy artillery smashed on the devil's head. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

With one dazzling explosion after another, the night sky turned blood-red, and the violent tremors of the ground made people stand a little unsteadily.

"Attack!" As soon as the explosion stopped, a loud trumpet sounded, and in the midst of the fierce trumpet, the soldiers in stab-proof vests shouted and charged, crushing the weak resistance and attacking forward.

More than 1,000 Japanese troops, when attacking the pagoda position, had already suffered more than 300 casualties, and only about 800 (including the lightly wounded) who could fight, and then distributed them to four directions, and the troops immediately looked extremely embarrassed. In addition, the fortifications were simply built, making it even more difficult to withstand the fierce attack of the artillery fire.

"Boom! Rumble! Bombardment......" shells fell on the positions of the devils, and in the continuous explosions, the smoke was filled, and nothing could be seen except the sporadic fire of the muzzles.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the "drumming" sound of "De'er, De'er, De'er......" rained down from the opposite side, and then the devil soldiers were horrified to find that countless cavalry suddenly appeared, wielding sabers and pounced on them.

Wu Jinsuo took advantage of the flash of artillery fire to shoot a devil officer who was howling with a command knife. There was a brief moment of confusion in the command of the devil.

Ma Bingzhong led a cavalry regiment to secretly detour back to the south, where the infantry fought against the infantry, and the devil was a little lax. Under the cover of the sound of artillery shelling and smoke, the cavalry quietly moved forward, and suddenly mounted their horses and launched a fierce charge at a distance of more than two hundred meters.

......Under the machine gun fire of the devils, the cavalry rushing in front kept falling.

On the two flanks of the opposite position, light and heavy machine guns also fired frantically to suppress them, and mortars unceremoniously smashed into the devil's firing point.

"Boom, boom, boom" several mortar shells exploded around the Devil's machine gun position almost simultaneously, and the Devil's heavy machine gun squad and machine gun parts flew into the air together.

"Rush, kill!" Brigade commander Ma Bingzhong was shirtless, holding a very Czech building, and shouted in the strafing.

"Rush! Kill! "Many cavalrymen roared shirtless, bare-chested and brandished sabers, and swept violently towards the enemy's positions!

In a short period of time, the position of the devils was occupied by the surging cavalry, and the "locust army" lying on the ground and shooting was trampled to death by the galloping war horses; The devils, who howled and jumped up, and fought the cavalry with their bayonets in despair, were cut in two by the sabers that were raised......

The cavalry that broke through the position split into two and attacked the east and west, while the infantry crossed the enemy position and continued to advance.

Breakthroughs were made in both the north and south directions, and the cavalry units that rushed in made a roundabout attack, achieving a division and encirclement of the enemy on the periphery.

The troops were depleted so quickly, and in the face of multiple breakthroughs, Nozawa did not dare to throw troops into the outer positions again, but ordered to shrink urgently, wanting to rely on the village and make a final resistance.

In the east, there was a touch of fish belly white, and the sky was about to dawn.

After sweeping away the peripheral enemy with absolute superiority, Ma Biao led the 3rd Cavalry Brigade to reorganize and move north, and Guo Songlin led the infantry, with the assistance of Ma Bingzhong's 2nd Brigade, to prepare nervously and launch the final general attack.

At 5:30 a.m., with the firing of mortars, the spicy and choking smoke rose and spread in the southern part of the Grange, drifting downwind towards the village.

The "poison gas bombs" mixed with chili pepper and pepper caused a wave of confusion and panic among the devils, and before they could adjust, they were hit by a fierce bombardment. Houses collapsed, smoke filled the air, and choking dust and smoke everywhere.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Flying Thunder artillery group dispersed, approached more than 300 meters, and fired shells at the Grange. Three rounds of earth-shaking bombardment, more than 30 powerful shells almost blew more than half of Zhuangzi into ruins.

Many Japanese soldiers were buried in collapsed houses, or blown up or shocked to death, and most of the hastily built bunkers were destroyed.

With the loud trumpets of the charge and the finishing bombardment of dozens of 60 guns, the infantry on the north and south sides launched an attacking attack.

Fierce street battles unfolded in the Grange, and there were less than 300 devils left, and more than half of them were killed or injured in the heavy bombardment. Even so, the disgusting tenacity of the devils still caused a lot of casualties to the attacking troops.

Either it is primitive instinct, or it is driven by hatred, or it is the madness of dying, and the two sides are fighting and fighting between the ruins. The bayonet made a terrible pop, the butt smashed the face that was close at hand, and the shotgun made a muffled sound, turning the enemy into a blood-stained, steaming pile of meat......

The cries, moans, and screams before death, the firing of all kinds of firearms, the smoke and dust, sweat and blood, all these are composed of these backgrounds, and both sides have completely abandoned their humanity.

Nozawa did not see the last tenacity of the "locust army", and he and several of his guards were buried in the collapsed houses under the bombardment of the flying thunder cannons.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the battlefield fell silent, and the Grange was almost in ruins, with craters, corpses, and other rags scattered within a two-kilometer radius of the village.

"What the - can fight!" Ma Bingzhong gathered the cavalry and looked at the wolf around him, this is the battlefield in the north, the artillery fire is the most intense, around the huge crater, there is the flesh and blood of the devil who was blown into parts, and a little farther away is the corpse of the devil with bloody features.

It is both emotional and lucky. Ma Bingzhong knew that if he only relied on more than 8,000 people in the cavalry division to annihilate these more than 1,000 devils, although it was possible to do it, it would inevitably be a heavy casualty. Although the three columns are all infantry, they have unique features in defense and offense, especially the technical troops, which impressed Ma Bingzhong even more.

"It's a blessing to have such a friendly army!" Chief of Staff Ma Ren exhaled a long sigh of emotion, "Three columns, hehe, a local guerrilla force, in my opinion, is not worse than the elite of the national * army." ”

"They are more courageous than the elite of the National X Army." Ma Bingzhong nodded, was silent for a long time, and said: "I want to suggest that the division seat, the first cavalry division should have an infantry brigade, and it is best to be trained by the three columns." ”

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The battlefield was a mess, and it was even more bloody and tragic.

At this time, Yang Tianfeng was also scanning and observing the battlefield after the fierce battle, full of war horses and corpses of personnel, and he was fortunate to see the battle scene of cavalry hedging and killing with sabers.

Growing up on horseback, the saber has been improved and strengthened, waiting for work, the strength is more dominant, and the two regiments of the first brigade of the first cavalry division **** Xiang finally seized the opportunity to take revenge on the shame, and confronted a squadron of devil cavalry sent by Shangqiu to support the battle, and won the final victory.

After the Japanese cavalry squadron and machine gun squadron arrived at Huaiyang City, they did not take much rest and acted as the vanguard and went south to help. But they never expected that north of Wangdian they would be ambushed and besieged by more than 2,000 enemies mixed with infantry and artillery.

The ambush was suddenly launched on the main road, and the crops on both sides of the road, which were already one person high, provided good cover for the ambush troops. The fire was sudden and ferocious, causing a large number of casualties to the enemy in a very short time.

The remaining devils rushed forward, trying to escape from the ambush circle with speed, and were crashing into the revengeful Ma family cavalry.

Less than two hundred devil cavalry, facing more than a thousand Ma family cavalry, but did not hesitate to rush forward. Xiang did not show weakness and sent a battalion to confront him. After the sound of horses' hooves, which was as sharp as a drum, the sound of sabers colliding on the battlefield, the dull sound of blades slashing into the human body, and the neighing of war horses were endless.

After several charges, the devil cavalry suffered casualties, and the cavalry battalion also paid a price similar to that of the devil. However, this knot was untied in the hearts of the officers and men of the 1st Cavalry Division, who were also cavalrymen, who proved with actual combat that they were not inferior to the devil's horse kung fu and fierce combat power.

"Inform Brigade Commander Ma that we are going north to surround Huaiyang." Yang Tianfeng put down the binoculars and gave orders to the heralds.

After these two heavy losses, there were only more than 600 enemies left in Huaiyang City. With 25,600 infantry and two cavalry regiments in Yang Tianfeng's hands, there was no longer any need to wait for the main force of the 1st Cavalry Division and the men and horses of a brigade led by Guo Songlin who went south.

Moreover, Huaiyang is not Yang Tianfeng's main target, he is staring at the more than 2,000 devils who will be rushed from Kaifeng to reinforce. It would be a mechanized force of tanks, armored vehicles, heavy artillery, and more than a hundred vehicles.

Of course, this reinforcement of Japanese troops will probably be less than two thousand people. Because the victory of the Kaifeng attack brought a wake-up call to the devils, only more than 1,000 people were left in Kaifeng, and I am afraid it would not reassure them. However, Yang Tianfeng will go all out, as long as this mobile enemy is eliminated, the balance of forces between the enemy and us in eastern and northern Henan will undergo a fundamental change, and the situation will change greatly.

It was nearly noon, and the cavalry troops led by Ma Biao rushed to the foot of Huaiyang City, and saw a scene of excavation in full swing with some consternation.

In the south of Huaiyang City, several serpentine trenches more than one meter wide and more than two meters deep have been dug for dozens of meters, and they are still moving towards Huaiyang City. From time to time, shells fell from the city, but under the cover of the trenches, it was almost impossible to inflict casualties.

This is not a trench to besiege the city, but a preparation for attacking Huaiyang City, which will be the first step to break through the city walls. How to enable the troops to quickly approach the city walls and reduce the casualties of the troops when approaching the city walls is one of the keys to attacking the fortifications.

Yang Tianfeng didn't have to think about it much, it could be said that he could easily bring all the fighting techniques of the four fields. The first thing shown to Ma Biao and others was tunnel operation, which was the most effective tactic to enable the troops to quickly approach the city walls and reduce casualties.

For example, when Siye attacked Jinzhou and Tianjin, he dug a large number of communication trenches, and a series of cobweb-like trenches advanced from the starting point of the attack to the city wall. The front point is only more than 60 meters away from the enemy, and the enemy cannot throw bombs. The communication trenches dug by the artillery could even drive into cars, and the artillery could even be pushed to a distance of 100 meters from the enemy. (To be continued.) )